Word: formosae
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Chou's maiden speech in international councils was worthy of his Moscow tutors. The U.S., he declared, was the villain-he motioned no other Western powers. The U.S. was creating "an aggressive bloc in Asia," had occupied Formosa, "and its occupation by anybody can in no case be tolerated," was establishing "a new colonial rule in Asia." Said Chou: "We also hold that interference in the internal affairs of the Asian nations should be stopped, all foreign military bases in Asia be removed, foreign armed forces stationed in Asian countries be withdrawn, the remilitarization of Japan be prevented...
Freda Utley once wrote: "Chou is hard to resist . . . witty, charming and tactful." From a Chinese newspaperman in Tokyo: "I should say he is the most impressive public figure I have ever met." From K. C. Wu, the now exiled governor of Formosa: "He has killed people with his own hands." From a U.S. officer who, like many others, once trusted Chou: "I left thinking he was a friend ... If I saw him today I think I would kill him." And from Chou En-lai himself: "You must't forget that I am a Communist...
...Formosa, the Chinese Nationalist government was reported ready to grant a passport to Wu Hsiu-huang, 16, son of the island's former governor, Dr. K. C. Wu, who now lives in vociferous exile in Evanston, Ill. It was "very good news, indeed" to Dr. Wu, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most bitter non-Communist critics, who recently accused Chiang of trying to silence him by holding young Wu as hostage...
...East in May 1952, the U.S. Government had given up the idea of a military victory in Korea. Mark Clark passionately believed that such faintheartedness had to be banished, that bases and airfields beyond the Yalu should be bombed, and that Chiang Kai-shek's offer of Formosa divisions ought to be accepted. He said as much. Clark believed that the result would not be World War III but a powerful brake on Communist aggression everywhere...
...fall of Indo-China, he continued, would knock over Burma, then Siam, then the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. This, in effect, would tumble the row of island defenses consisting of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. To the south, it then threatened Australia and New Zealand. So, said the President, the possible consequences of the loss were just incalculable to the free world...